# About presets, licensing and copyrights: friendly but hot! ;-)

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**Created:** [March 7, 2021, 10:50am UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/about-presets-licensing-and-copyrights-friendly-but-hot/5518 "2021-03-07T10:50:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![pmatilai](https://discourse.zynthian.org/user_avatar/discourse.zynthian.org/pmatilai/32/3420_2.png) [@pmatilai](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/pmatilai)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 2:47pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/about-presets-licensing-and-copyrights-friendly-but-hot/5518/13 "2021-03-07T14:47:07Z")

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> [@Vital Synth by Matt Tytel](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/vital-synth-by-matt-tytel/4974/48):
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> > [@pmatilai](#):
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> > What you do personally is your business, but when things are redistributed in Zynthian, other people are affected as well.
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> I don’t fully understand this sentence.  
> Can you put an example of what do you mean?

I promised to shut up, but since you ask:

Let’s say you find a nice unlicensed preset off the net, and make a hit song with it. Later it turns out that the preset was an illegally redistributed sample from vendor X, who sues you. That’s _your_ headache.

However, what if said preset is included on the Zynthian, and a Zynthian user then goes to make a million dollar hit song using this preset? And then the vendor starts suing?

It may seem unlikely, but I wont call it far-fetched because that’d be belittling the device and its users. Just that it’s a situation you don’t want to put yourself or the users in, no matter what.

Quoting [zynthian.org](http://zynthian.org) homepage:

> You can use it for live performing, studio production or as a tool for sound exploration.
> 
> Zynthian is a [community-driven project](https://discourse.zynthian.org) and it’s 100% open source. Free software on Open hardware. Completely configurable and fully hackable! **Free as in Freedom.**

That’s a pretty strong statement that there are no proprietary materials included, but maintaining that requires a continuous effort from everybody involved. It’s not a matter of personal beliefs.

And now I’ll really shut up 😅

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